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Bus Depot gets heritage listing

The Canberra Times informs us that Kingston’s Bus Depot that wasn’t a bus depot has achieved heritage listing and thus will be spared the untender mercies of property development.

The nine-year battle to conserve Kingston’s Old Bus Depot is over after the ACT’s heritage authority agreed to permanently list the historic structure.

A final decision by the ACT Heritage Council this week noted the significance of the 70-year-old building’s fully welded rigid steel portal frames and its historic value to early transport workers and their families.

Yep, the citizens of the world’s great cities must be chuckling at the feeble heritage we insist on preserving. Can you imagine Rome, Florence, Paris London and the like if every last example of ugly but utilitarian architecture had been preserved because it represented a miniscule step in the advancement of structural evolution.

We all know FFS means, and this time it really is FFS.

You clearly haven’t been to or lived in London. If so you might be very surprised what is and isn’t considered to be of heritage value including as you put it butt ugly utilitarian architecture. Heritage and beauty are mutually exclusive and to be honest I think the bus depot is worthy of protecting.

Yep, the citizens of the world’s great cities must be chuckling at the feeble heritage we insist on preserving. Can you imagine Rome, Florence, Paris London and the like if every last example of ugly but utilitarian architecture had been preserved because it represented a miniscule step in the advancement of structural evolution.